In an interview with Il Corriere della Sera, Schmidt declares that Google is preparing "a tablet of the highest quality" that will be in the market in six months, just in time to butt heads with Apple's next iPad revision. Presumably, this will be their tablet version of the Nexus, the crème de la crème of the Android tablets. He also says that we will see more "brutal competition between Apple and Google Android."

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He also says that Steve Jobs was a "friend of mine" and a Michelangelo of our time.